The Ulster Unionist Party
Capitalism has carved up the world using violence, just as British imperialism has sent the Protestants of Ulster to this country in order to suppress and brutalise everyone in their way. All has been built upon one thing, original sin.
The sin of Adam is upon their tradition. The sin of crossing the Irish Sea to take another man’s land upset the natural course of history and locked them into a time warp where they see plots and conspiracies to undermine them wherever they go.
Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling-place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. (Deut 26: 15)
Unionism is based on original sin that has taken unionists from the natural evolution of the New Testament value system in England and Scotland into the dark ages of the Old Testament justification for their actions while in Ireland.
Building upon original sin is said to be the way of men ever since the founding father of humanity, Adam, broke the laws of God in the Garden of Eden. However, Christ changed that.
The Ulster Unionists have taken to Adam in a way that signals the impending death of their tradition. Not for them the challenge to love life inherent in the adherence to the values of the New Testament.
Their tradition is different. It speaks of victory in marching season speeches to remind us of hollow victories achieved at a time when there was much at stake for them and little at stake for others. Yet the only victory that is important is the victory of life over death. Unionists choose death when life is available.
This is a tradition that is ill-at-ease with itself. This is the ultimate male agenda. Everything is male, even the women despite their attempts at femininity. When they march in formation through the streets of my city, I see not people filled with the joys of life, reaching out to their neighbours, but bullies set on excluding everyone they see from their little Protestant conspiracy for a Protestant state.
The choice for unionists is not between Christ and Antichrist, but between prophets and false prophets (Ian Paisley) as they are coincidentally the Old Testament tradition.